The Tabboun: Fake Rahall site misleads voters

The Tabboun: Fake Rahall site misleads voters

The Tabboun: an outdoor oven where Arab women would bake bread and sit and talk and gossip about events and people

English: , member of the United States House of Representatives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Republican Party has turned to a sleazy new technique to undermine their Democratic opponents, building fake websites to negatively promote the target candidates, including one targeting American Arab Congressman Nick Rahall of West Virginia. Rahall’s real site is at www.nickrahall.com.

The fake site is online at nickrahallforcongress.com and was funded by the National Republican Congressional Committee which is using the sites to solicit funds from online visitors. The NRCC has created dozens of fake sites targeting Democratic incumbents and some argue are misleading donors.

Not surprisingly, the Federal Election Board has not issued a statement on the problem.

CONTROVERSY FOLLOWS Olympian and Alpine Skiing athlete Jacky Chamoun at the Sochi Olympics. Chamoun posed for a calendar called ‘Ski Instructors’ shot by fellow Olympian Hubertus von Hohenlohe. The shots were risque and shot on the Faraya ski slopes outside Beirut in Lebanon. The shoot included teammate Chirine Njeimand created some negative publicity in Lebanon, though she was happy with the calendar. “It was positive for me. I don’t regret it at all,” Chamoun said. “When I started my job, for example, people when they search for me on the web sometimes they can see these pictures directly so you think maybe it’s not the best thing, not the best image you can give someone of you. But, I don’t really care. I really enjoyed it and I don’t regret it. I like these photos. I have no problem with it.”

WHO WAS THE FIRST person to open an Arab American store in Flint, Michigan, a community not too far from the Plymouth Rock of American Arabs, Dearborn, Michigan? Well, MLive.com writer Scott Atkinsonsays it is Ameen Farah, who is featured in research conducted by author and scholar Hani Bawardi who has a new book coming out soon called “The Making of Arab Americans.” Sounds like a great book and we can’t wait to read it and promote. Click here to read the story.

COCA-COLA PARTNERING WITH KEURIG to produce a pop-maker that will create soda pop in the home in a small “k-cup.” The idea of fake pop, though turns off many people. But the motivation behind it might be an effort by Coca-Cola to blunt any economic advances by SodaStream which is marketing a similar device to make homemade pop. The SodaStream effort has been the focus of much controversy because its largest factory is based in the racist all-Jewish illegal settlement of Maale Adumim in the Israeli Occupied West Bank. Maale Adumim is built on lands forcibly taken from Christian and Muslim Arabs of Palestine in when the West Bank was occupied by Israeli in June 1967. SodaStream has hired Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson as their representative. Pro-Israel critics have accused President Barack Obama and his supporters of being behind a decision by Oxfam to drop Johansson as their “ambassador.” Oxfam is an international development organization that fights poverty. Click here for more information about Oxfam.

MORE BIAS FROM CONGRESS, the beehive of racist hatred and xenophobia. The US House of Representatives is proposing to adopt a new bill that would allow Israelis to enter the United States like citizens without a Visa, while increasing restrictions on Arabs and Muslims. The new bill is sponsored by California Congressman Brad Sherman, a member of the growing anti-Arab and anti-Muslim congressional caucus. Click for information on the bill. … Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly denying rumors that he is considering running for President in 2016 in the Democratic Primary, presumably against his predecessor and former First Lady and Congressman Hillary Clinton. The reports are surfacing in the American Jewish media, which seems to be lining up against both Clinton and Kerry because of their often balanced opinions pushing for Israeli and Palestinian equality and peace. … Western Illinois University has done a nice profile of Jack Shaheen, a scholar who has helped document the images and negative stereotypes of Arabs in Hollywood movies. Click here to read the profile.

WORD ON THE STREET: … It’s encouraging that the word on the street is that AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is experiencing a drop in its influence. The more Israelis criticize President Obama and his efforts to bring about a fair and just resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, the more Americans are starting to see many Israelis and especially the Israeli government as the ingrates that they are. American taxpayers give Israel more than $5 billion a year in subsidies and grants, and they are still bashing America for standing up to civil rights abuses by Israel in the Occupied Territories and by refusing to recognize the Illegal Israeli settlements. Most recently, attacks have come from the Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post Caroline Glick whose columns attacking peace and Arabs have recently included criticism of America.

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Ray Hanania is an award winning Palestinian American columnist. Named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" for 2006/07 by the New America Media. He is the recipient of four Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club and the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. Visit his website at www.TheDailyHookah.com. Find his podcasts on iTunes and on Vimeo.